Marmessulus nigricornis (Stål, 1865)

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 20

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7615896

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scientific name

Marmessulus nigricornis (Stål, 1865)
status

 

ampla (Arma) Walker 1867a: 138 . [ Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1–8 ]

Original data: “ a. Constancia , Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark. b. Rio Janeiro. ” [two syntypes] LECTOTYPE ♁ (designated by Thomas 1992: 52): purple-margined lectotype disc; green-margined type disc; “RIO JANEIRO Decr 1856. J. Gray. / 57. 57.”; “34. ARMA AMPLA .”; “NHMUK 010592413”. Fourth and fifth left antennomeres, fifth right antennomere, and left leg missing ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 1–8 ).

Current status: Marmessulus nigricornis (Stål, 1865) (synonymised by Schouteden 1907: 26).

Notes: Thomas (1992: 52) explained: “I examined the male type of Arma ampla Walker , located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “57.57 Rio de Janeiro Dec 1856 J. Gray,” c) “ Arma ampla .”” It is clear from the original description (see above) that Walker had two specimens. We have found just one in the collection. By giving its exact label data and calling it “the male type”, Thomas has “unambiguously selected [this] particular syntype to act as the unique name-bearing type of the taxon” ( ICZN 1999, Art. 74.5). The second specimen is missing or has not been recognised.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Pentatomidae

Genus

Marmessulus

Loc

Marmessulus nigricornis (Stål, 1865)

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A. 2023
2023
Loc

ampla (Arma) Walker 1867a: 138

Walker, F. 1867: 138
1867
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